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Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched
Stack Overflow officially launched on September 15, 2008. In five short years, you've answered over 5 million questions on more than 100 sites , and helped hundreds of millions of people find the answers they needed. Today, we want to celebrate how, together, we changed one small corner of the Internet for the better…
Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes
Paul Graham YC partner (and lawyer) Carolynn Levy has created a new alternative to convertible notes, called a safe, that has the advantages of convertible debt without some of the disadvantages. We’re publishing a standard safe document for all startups to use, and we expect most future YC startups will use this when…
Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web
Mozilla, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is advancing the Web as the platform for high-en
What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you
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The Onion releases fartscroll.js
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EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
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Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
I’m extraordinarily pleased to today announce Topaz, a project I started 10 months ago, to create a brand new implementation of the Ruby programming language (version 1.9.3).
Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier
I've been using *nix systems for quite a while. But there are a few commands that I somehow overlooked and wish I'd discovered years earlier.
The Chromebook Pixel
Chromebooks were designed to make computing speedy, simple and secure. For many of you, they have become the perfect, additional (and yes, a...
Ghost Launches to The Public
Today we are very proud to announce the first public release of the Ghost blogging platform to the public. Following three weeks of intense testing after launching [https://ghost.org/changelog/launch/] to our 6,000 Kickstarter backers, today we are releasing an updated Ghost 0.3.2 to everyone
JQuery 2.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Bootstrap 3 released
Today, on the two year anniversary of releasing Bootstrap to the world, we're shipping Bootstrap 3.0. It's been a crazy long ride to say the least and we're…
TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms
After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results. For those of us who care about free speech and a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation, creativity, and...
Machine learning is easier than it looks
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.
Lessons Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in a Year
Groove is now Helply!
In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law
Outpourings of grief and calls for change continue to flood the Internet after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, only 26 years old. Aaron was one of our community's best and brightest, and he acheived great things in his short life. He was a coder, a political activist, an entrepreneur, a contributor to...